Born in Cork, Ireland, Ben studied painting at CCAD and graduated with a first class honours degree in fine art in 2007. He now lives with his wife and two daughters in southern Queensland in Australia, painting from his studio situated in the verdant landscape of Currumbin Valley.
b. 1983, Cork, Ireland
EDUCATION
2007
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Crawford College of Art & Design, Cork, Ireland.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025
A stranger in a strange land, Boom Gallery, Geelong, VIC, Australia
2024
Between Addresses, Boom Gallery, Geelong, VIC, Australia
2023
A Slow Migration, Curatorial and Co, Sydney, NSW, Australia
All Was Lost And Found In The Song Of The Butcher Bird, Boom Gallery, Geelong, VIC, Australia
2022
The Unwritten Places, Boom Gallery, Geelong, VIC, Australia
2021
An Outlaw for My Love, Curatorial and Co, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2020
Eighty Eight Miles Per Hour, Boom Gallery, Geelong, VIC, Australia
2008
The Sheer Unspeakable Strangeness of Being Here at All, The Shaw Gallery, Cork, Ireland
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Landscape Salon, Boom Gallery, Geelong, VIC, Australia
ART/house, Boom Gallery, Geelong, VIC, Australia
2024
London Art Fair, Candida Stevens Gallery, UK
Offspring Project, Charity Auction, Geelong, VIC, Australia
Tethered to Gravity, Candida Stevens Gallery, UK
Miniatures for Macmillan, Candida Stevens Gallery, UK
2023
Summer Salon, Boom Gallery, Geelong, VIC, Australia
Darlings, Curatorial and Co, Sydney, NSW, Australia
If You Could Save One Place, Candida Stevens at London Art Fair
2022
Darlings, Curatorial and Co, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Place - Displace, Candida Stevens Gallery, UK.
Offspring Project, Charity Auction, Geelong, VIC, Australia
Art on a Postcard, Charity Auction, UK
Women Up North, Charity Auction, Curatorial and Co, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2021
Darlings, Curatorial and Co, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Natura Morta, Boom Gallery, Geelong, VIC, Australia
Art for Charity Collective, Online art auction, Instagram.
Selection of works alongside other Boom artists, Boom Gallery, Geelong, VIC, Australia
Top 100, The Auction Collective, London UK.
Bucolia, Blue Shop Cottage, London UK.
A Space Between, Online art auction, Art For Charity Collective, UK.
2020
Darlings, Curatorial and Co, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Art For Charity Online Art Auction, Instagram.
Nearness, Boom Gallery, Geelong, VIC, Australia
2019
Marking Time, Boom Gallery, Geelong, VIC, Australia
2018
BAM Arts Prize, Thom Gallery, Byron Bay, NSW, Australia
Memory and Paint, Boom Gallery, Geelong, VIC, Australia
2017
We're Closer Than You Think, Lismore Regional Art Gallery, NSW, Australia
Spotlight Artist September, Retrospect Galleries, Byron Bay, NSW, Australia
2010
Happiness, The Lavit Gallery, Cork, Ireland
Winter Show, The Lavit Gallery, Cork, Ireland
2008
Two Man Show with Brían Crotty, Crackpots Gallery, Kinsale, Ireland
CASe '08, The Lavit Gallery, Cork, Ireland
2007
Recent Graduates Exhibition, Joan Clancy Gallery, Dungarvan, Ireland
Fledglings, The Lavit Gallery, Cork, Ireland
RDS Student Art Awards, RDS, Dublin, Ireland
Degree Show, Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork, Ireland